LightSquared Continues Legal Battle

By Doug Lung
published


LightSquared is still fighting to obtain the right to use its MSS spectrum that's close to the GPS spectrum. Bloomberg.com writers Scott Moritz and Todd Shields' article Falcone's LightSquared Hires Legal Team to Fight Regulators says "Billionaire Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. hired litigators Theodore Olson and Eugene Scalia of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP (1128L) as it gears up for a possible legal battle with U.S. regulators." Lawrence Kaplan, a lawyer with Paul Hastings in Washington is quoted as saying, "Olson's one of the sharpest minds in the legal world. You can't go much higher."

Olson previously served as President George W. Bush's solicitor general. Scalia is the son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Olson said in a statement, "We will do all we can to ensure that LightSquared does not lose billions of dollars in investments due to a precipitous, arbitrary reversal by the government."

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Doug Lung
Doug Lung

Doug Lung is one of America's foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology. As vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local, H. Douglas Lung leads NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ RF and transmission affairs, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings. Beginning his career in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles, Lung has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast television engineering. Beginning in 1985, he led the engineering department for what was to become the Telemundo network and station group, assisting in the design, construction and installation of the company’s broadcast and cable facilities. Other projects include work on the launch of Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, the rollout and testing of the ATSC mobile-handheld standard, and software development related to the incentive auction TV spectrum repack.
A longtime columnist for TV Technology, Doug is also a regular contributor to IEEE Broadcast Technology. He is the recipient of the 2023 NAB Television Engineering Award. He also received a Tech Leadership Award from TV Tech publisher Future plc in 2021 and is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.